Central Park “Karen” “pulled the pin on a race grenade” when he called black bird watchman Christian Cooper, he said in a new interview.
“He will enter into a deep, deep, deep and dark racism – racial bias – that has engulfed this country and has been practiced for centuries,” educated Christian Christian Harvard said Gayle King in “Justice for All” specifically on CBS News.
“He basically pulled the pin on the racing grenade and tried to make a hole in me,” he added.
The white dog walker, whose real name is Amy Cooper, went viral after he was filmed calling the police, telling birdwatchers that he would “tell them there was an African-American man who threatened my life.”
Their confrontation on May 25 sparked mass outrage over racism – just a day before a video surfaced about the death of policeman-detention George Floyd which eventually sparked international anti-racism protests around the world.
“I don’t know whether he is racist or not,” Christian said about Amy, who has no relations. “I don’t know his life. I don’t know how he lived it. That action is clearly racist, even if he doesn’t realize it right now.”
“I’m not sure someone’s life must be determined by 60 seconds of bad judgment,” he continued.
Christian said “a bit of irony” was that their confrontation was initially “not related to race” because he only wanted him to release his dog in the Ramble park.
“It’s just a conflict between dog-walkers and birder,” he said.
The exchange video caused Amy to be called “Karen,” an acronym for social media because it reacts too much to white women. Mayor Bill de Blasio called it “racism, plain and simple.”
Amy – who later apologized for the incident – was fired from his job at investment company Franklin Templeton, while the Central Park Civic Association also called for him to be banned from the park.
